Life Savers
Life Savers doesn’t just teach—it inspires curiosity, courage, and career dreams.
$19.99
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Visual Learner
In a Curriculum Kit
Multiple Grades
Nonreligious
2026 Pre-K Curriculum Kit
Life Savers
Life Savers introduces young children to the people who help keep communities safe, including firefighters, paramedics, police officers, aid workers, and animal rescuers. Through engaging illustrations and age-appropriate examples, the book helps preschoolers understand the important roles these everyday heroes play.
As children explore the pages, they'll learn about the tools, equipment, and responsibilities that come with each job. Real-world scenarios help connect uniforms, vehicles, and emergency services to the people who use them, making unfamiliar situations feel more understandable.
The book's global perspective also introduces children to helpers from around the world, broadening their understanding of how people care for and protect others in different communities.
Whether your child is fascinated by emergency vehicles or simply curious about how the world works, Life Savers provides an engaging introduction to the men and women who serve others when help is needed most.
How to Use Life Savers
- Introduce one community helper each week to give your child time to absorb the information and become familiar with the people and tools featured in the book. At that pace, you'll have plenty of opportunities to revisit favorite pages throughout the year.
- As you read, pause to talk about the equipment shown in the illustrations. Ask questions such as, "What do you think that tool does?" or "How do you think that helper uses it?" These simple conversations encourage observation and curiosity.
- Look for opportunities to connect the book to real life. Point out firefighters, police officers, ambulances, construction workers, or other community helpers when you see them in your neighborhood. Familiar faces and experiences help reinforce what your child is learning.
- Pretend play is a natural extension of this book. Invite your child to rescue stuffed animals, care for toy patients, direct traffic, or respond to imaginary emergencies. Acting out what he has learned helps deepen his understanding and gives him a chance to practice helping others.
Most importantly, use the book as a starting point for conversations about service, courage, and caring for others. Young children are naturally drawn to heroes, and Life Savers helps them recognize the everyday people who make a difference in their communities.
Publisher: Magic Cat Publishing
ISBN: 9781913520168
Faith-Based: No
Ages: 4-6
Grades: PreK-1st
Format: Hardcover
- July 20, 2025
A Great Way to Teach "Look for the Helpers"
Dorothy W.
This is a much beloved book in our home, my son always asks a hundred or so questions about each community helper. There's a couple of paragraphs describing what a day on the job looks like for each specific helper, a few illustrations with descriptions showing what the helper is doing and then on the next page is an entire list of tools and equipment the community helpers use to help them with their job. If your little scholar is anything like mine, you'll want to look up what some pieces of equipment do in advance, as mine asks questions about every single piece shown and a few more about the job itself. For lessons I like to pair this with Mr.Rogers and/or Daniel Tiger episodes about "looking for the helpers" as this makes young children more familiar with what a helper might look like and what they are doing so they become both comfortable and familiar with care givers/workers and also sparks interest in the jobs themselves. While he hasn't nailed it down specifically, my son is convinced he wants to grow up to be a helper of some kind, and this book has definitely contributed to that.
